CEC Resources

Standards/Position Statements:

• Maine Learning Results Updated to Reflect the Common Core State Standards in Maine
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards
• Maine Early Childhood Learning Guidelines
• The Alignment of the California Preschool Early Learning Foundations with Key Early Education Resources
• Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8, > a joint position statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and Fred Rogers Center.

Articles:

• Helping Young Children Develop a Healthy Media Diet, Fred Roger's Center Blog
• NAEYC Teaching Young Children article Touch and Grow: Learning and Exploring Using Tabletsand accompanying Message in a Backpack for families Explore and Learn with Tablets.
• Worlds Apart: One City, Two Libraries and Ten Years of Watching Inequality Grow

Books:

• Picture Science: Using Digital Photography to Teach Young Children by Carla Neumann-Hinds
• Spotlight on Young Children and Technology (NAEYC)
• Teaching in the Digital Age: Smart Tools for Age 3 to Grade 3 by Brian Puerling

Additional Resources:

• Comienza en Casa, It Starts at Home> Comienza en Casa Resources Page
• All About Words: Increasing Vocabulary in the Common Core Classroom PreK-2 has impacted our curriculum design/app selection choices in Comienza en Casa.
• Child Development Learning Center Best Practices (Pacific University) Technology
• Digital Storytelling for Young Learners 2013, a free Electronic Village Online (EVO) -check out their Sandbox of Tech Tools
• Evaulation Rubric for iPad Applications from iPads for Education, Early Childhood iPad Initiative including brief descriptions of theSAMR and TPACK models
• Results Matter Video Library - iPads in Early Childhood